Train reservation charts on coaches become a thing of the past

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Updated: Sep 03, 2018, 09.28 AM IST

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In November 2016, as a part of the green initiative, South Western Railways’s Bengaluru Division discontinued pasting charts on reserved coaches of all trains from Bengaluru City and Yeshwantpur stations.

Stopping a age-old practice, the Indian Railways has decided not to paste reservation charts on train coaches across the country beginning this month. The move by the railways is seen as an effort to save paper and to take the green initiative a step further.

Railway authorities have, however, maintained that physical charts would continue to be stuck on soft boards at platforms.

According to Mumbai Mirror, the reason for the move is that about 70 percent of the 11 lakh railway tickets sold daily across the country are booked over the internet.

Main stations CST, Mumbai Central and other major stations have already stopped the practice of Charting, or the pasting of reservation charts on train coaches nearly four months ago, and trains that start from these terminuses have not carried reservation charts since March.

According to statement issued by the railway ministry in February this year, it had directed its zones to discontinue pasting reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains at A1, A and B category stations as a pilot project for six months from 1 March.

The practise of pasting reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains was discontinued at New Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Mumbai Central, Chennai Central, Howrah and Sealdah stations.

In November 2016, as a part of the green initiative, South Western Railways’s Bengaluru Division discontinued pasting charts on reserved coaches of all trains from Bengaluru City and Yeshwantpur stations.

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